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Prime Honors: ABC’s “PrimeTime Live” won top honors at the 24th annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards in Washington on Monday. The grand prize went to the show’s reporters Diane Sawyer, Mark Lukasiewicz and Eugenia Harvey for a segment about attitudes toward blacks. “PrimeTime’s” John Quinones and Robert Campos won in the international category for a piece on the use of Haitian children to cut sugar cane in the Dominican Republic. Minnesota Public Radio was the winner in the radio category for reporting on “crack babies,” and the Miami Herald took first place in the print category for its series on poor people without health insurance. The Los Angeles Times’ Paul Conrad was honored for his editorial cartoons, and “Praying for Sheetrock,” Melissa Fay Greene’s nonfiction work, won the book award.

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